Posted on 10/13/2021 2:36:47 PM PDT by Vendome
This week, San Francisco is expected to once again ease certain indoor mask mandates for portions of the adult population. Mayor London Breed has celebrated this news “because it will allow offices to have more normal routines and interactions.” Noticeably lacking in the new guidance is any update for school and child care mask mandates or even any acknowledgement that kids might also need more normal routines and interactions. Considering they are in peak development years, children need these things even more than adults.
It’s not as if mask relief for kids couldn’t safely become a reality. In fact, Mayor Breed and the San Francisco Department of Public Health recently acknowledged what has been known almost from the beginning: Serious COVID-19 illness in those under 18 is extremely rare, pediatric cases make up a small percentage of total cases, and this percentage has been relatively consistent over time, including during our delta wave. In fact, numbers indicate that COVID-19 poses a significantly lower risk to kids than drowning, homicides, suicides, cancer, car accidents, common flu and heart disease — all risks we’ve previously accepted without dramatically altering the school environment.
Since March 2020, there have been a total of 13 pediatric hospitalizations among San Francisco residents at San Francisco hospitals...There also hasn’t been a single COVID-19-related death under the age of 20 in San Francisco.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 risk assessments by age estimate that simply being a child aged five to 17 is 99.9994% protective against the risk of death and 98% protective against hospitalization.
Even with this established good news, San Francisco remains an outlier on child mask mandates compared to the vast majority of Europe.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Let’s be like Europe.
(SF liberals)
Leftists. Hate Europe for colonization. Wants to be like Europe.
vaccinating children i completely unnecessary. They have an extremely low covid mortality rate.
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Liberals don’t care about other people’s kids. They put their own kids in private or charter schools. Other people’s kids should have been aborted but since they weren’t we have to teach them to be compliant and obedient. And not too upity.
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